I don't understand why any phone should be sending data (and wasting customers' money). My Nokia Shorty phone doesn't send any data, except the standard "I am here" via SMS texting to the local towers (and that isn't considered data).
If I had one of those phones that is sending "background" data back to Microsoft or Google or Apple, I'd be billed at $1 per megabyte, which would suck.
I really don't find anything objectionable about this. If you're a parent and don't want your One Child looking at games when you're still at the office, enable the switch to block their access beyond one hour.
Buying Final Fantasy 13 for $45 sale price, beating it, and then selling to to some guy on ebay for $53..... or renting it from netflix - I mean Onlive.
I think I'll continue buying-and-selling games. Nice idea though. Maybe someday I'll actually go back to renting movies/games like I did in the days of A-to-Z Video (they loaned-out Betamax, VHS, NES). But for now I like physically owning the item, so I have something of value to convert back to cash.
Comcast execs are sons of silly persons. Thpppppt! Thppt! Thppt!
I don't wanna get your $80/month bills no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in thy general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time-a! Stupid Comcast-men.
I have submitted stories when Mozilla Seamonkey released 2.1 Alpha and Beta. Both were rejected. (But betas about firefox get promoted.) In fact seamonkey hasn't been covered by slashdot since 2009.
Opera doesn't get much coverage either. They released 10.1, 10.5, 10.6 and nary a word from slashdot, and opera's the most popular browser in Eastern europe and Russia.
>>>Having a browser with a feature that no one else uses!
When Netscape first introduced the concept of Inline Pictures, or Frames, or Blink, nobody had ever used them before either. But the web quickly adapted.
(Still not sure why blink was deprecated. How am I supposed to design a website header that mimics Neon signs?)
Whenever there's a Beta release (11 times so far) we get a post. And NOW we have a post about a release that not even a full beta, but just a pre-build.
But we don't ever get updates when Mozilla Seamonkey has a release (upto beta 3 now), or Chrome, or Safari, or Opera. Yes Firefox is my favorite browser (because of the addons), but can we at least have some balance? Coverage of other browsers would be good too.
Hey - most US farmers were already put out of business by megacorps like Monsanto and Archer-Daniels Midland..... similar to what happened with the tinkers, tailors, and candlestick makers. Corporations are more efficient and harvest corn/cows/other products cheaper than a bunch of single farmers. So the farmers were driven-out a long time ago, and only a few souls remain.
>>>Last I checked standard dial up could deliver about 4-5 Kb/s
I'm sure you meant 4-5 kB/s (kilobytes per second). As for speed, I used compressed dialup which squeezes text to about 5% its original size and images to ~10% their original size. It looks like crap but loads webpages as quickly as my 700 kbit/s DSL line (less than ten seconds).
Now what's the deal with three bonded modems only having 2.8 kB/s? 3 * 5.3 == 16 kbyte/s for a digital line and 3 * 3.3 == almost 10 kbyte/s for an analog line.
>>>The Senate was essentially a lifetime appointment originally and turned into an inherited office over time.
I don't know what happened in the long term, but originally the Senate was an elected position. Later-on the Romans added an elected Assembly for the Plebians. So Rome a a Democratic republic much like the U.S. (which copied the roman model with some changes).
A Roman-style Senate which had NO leaders. No caesars or presidents or anybody else who might become sick with power.
Also Google's pretty genius. All you need is a standard voiceline to post your tweets online. Nice. Wonder if anyone is making using of Dialup to post online? Despite many claims that dialup is worthless, it's actually quite useful - just slower (watching youtube requires a 5 minute buffer time) (or a youtube-to-3GP downloader).
For one thing: Betacam spins the tape spins faster, so a standard [1 and a half hour] Betamax tape only lasts [30 minutes] in the Betacam VCR. - Second: Betacam is a Component video format, while Betamax is S-video. i.e. Betacam is superior quality.
I wish people would stop repeating this. Betamax and Betacam are as different from one another as an Amiga floppy from a Mac floppy. Sure they both share the same media format, but they are completely different in all other aspects.
For one thing: Betacam spins the tape approximately 4 times faster, so a standard 3-hour Betamax tape only last 1 hour in the Betacam VCR.
Second: Betacam is a Component video format, while Betamax is S-video. i.e. Betacam is superior quality.
Cheaper. I try to avoid spending money on upgrades when the computer (or car or TV) is still working. And yes I play videogames but usually on my Gamecube or PS2, rather than my laptop.
As for videos, youtube and hulu don't demand much processing power. The 700 MHz P3 can handle it just fine.
>>>I tried to copy my save file to the SD Card, and it told me no.
It would also suck if your Wii died, and the Replacement wii refused to accept all the savecards you've created so far. Sometimes I think the videogame industry is just as stupid as the music industry - i.e. trying to piss off customers until they have almost-none left.
>>>Ubuntu can get viruses just as easily as other OSes
Hey!
Linux fans - Can I use Ubuntu Live CD to virus-check my Windows XP partition? It goes to desktop and then freezes almost immediately. Or - can I get a Virus program to run off a floppy?
>>>The designer of NT came from a VMS background but NT was not based on VMS [or OS/2] code.
FTFY. And Netscape's designers came from their previous creation Mosaic for Amiga, Mac, and PC, but Netscape was not based on Mosaic code. Many moons later the Mozilla Suite spun-off from the never-released Netscape 5, and eventually became Seamonkey, but lo the users were not happy with Seamonkey's bloat, so they split-off the browser half and called it Firefox. And it was good.
Thus spake the book of mozilla. (Meanwhile I continue to believe Internet Explorer never actually existed, despite claims that it was released with Windows 95 Service Pack 1.) (And netscape devolved to a low-end dialup service: http://www.getnetscape.com/ )
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I don't understand why any phone should be sending data (and wasting customers' money). My Nokia Shorty phone doesn't send any data, except the standard "I am here" via SMS texting to the local towers (and that isn't considered data).
If I had one of those phones that is sending "background" data back to Microsoft or Google or Apple, I'd be billed at $1 per megabyte, which would suck.
They'll probably settle out of court.
Offer to give customers refunds.
And I'll get a $50 check like I did with the Paypal and CD Companies lawsuits.
I really don't find anything objectionable about this. If you're a parent and don't want your One Child looking at games when you're still at the office, enable the switch to block their access beyond one hour.
It empowers the parent like V-chip does.
Test -
How come I can't see my own post? Or anybody else's posts? Odd.
Buying Final Fantasy 13 for $45 sale price, beating it, and then selling to to some guy on ebay for $53..... or renting it from netflix - I mean Onlive.
I think I'll continue buying-and-selling games. Nice idea though. Maybe someday I'll actually go back to renting movies/games like I did in the days of A-to-Z Video (they loaned-out Betamax, VHS, NES). But for now I like physically owning the item, so I have something of value to convert back to cash.
Of course I might end-up like this guy:
"Author Falls in Love with E-reader"
http://www.analogsf.com/2011_04/altview.shtml
Comcast execs are sons of silly persons. Thpppppt! Thppt! Thppt!
I don't wanna get your $80/month bills no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in thy general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time-a! Stupid Comcast-men.
>>>But I see this as the opposite of ecology
You're strange. I'd sooner eat cloned muscle from a lab, then from an animal that's been abused, bled to death, and chopped up.
I have submitted stories when Mozilla Seamonkey released 2.1 Alpha and Beta. Both were rejected. (But betas about firefox get promoted.) In fact seamonkey hasn't been covered by slashdot since 2009.
Opera doesn't get much coverage either. They released 10.1, 10.5, 10.6 and nary a word from slashdot, and opera's the most popular browser in Eastern europe and Russia.
>>>Having a browser with a feature that no one else uses!
When Netscape first introduced the concept of Inline Pictures, or Frames, or Blink, nobody had ever used them before either. But the web quickly adapted.
(Still not sure why blink was deprecated. How am I supposed to design a website header that mimics Neon signs?)
Whenever there's a Beta release (11 times so far) we get a post. And NOW we have a post about a release that not even a full beta, but just a pre-build.
But we don't ever get updates when Mozilla Seamonkey has a release (upto beta 3 now), or Chrome, or Safari, or Opera. Yes Firefox is my favorite browser (because of the addons), but can we at least have some balance? Coverage of other browsers would be good too.
(whispers)
Hey - most US farmers were already put out of business by megacorps like Monsanto and Archer-Daniels Midland..... similar to what happened with the tinkers, tailors, and candlestick makers. Corporations are more efficient and harvest corn/cows/other products cheaper than a bunch of single farmers. So the farmers were driven-out a long time ago, and only a few souls remain.
You're strange. I'd sooner eat cloned muscle from a lab, then from an animal that's been abused, bled to death, and chopped up.
>>>the old Navigator was just called the Mozilla suite
It's in-house codename was Seamonkey.
>>>Win9X can make a great embedded OS with better driver support and lower specs than pretty much any embedded OS out there.
>>>
Embedded OS? Why not just run DOS directly, and get rid of the Win95 shell?
We used VxWorks on our Pentium-based system.
>>>Last I checked standard dial up could deliver about 4-5 Kb/s
I'm sure you meant 4-5 kB/s (kilobytes per second). As for speed, I used compressed dialup which squeezes text to about 5% its original size and images to ~10% their original size. It looks like crap but loads webpages as quickly as my 700 kbit/s DSL line (less than ten seconds).
Now what's the deal with three bonded modems only having 2.8 kB/s? 3 * 5.3 == 16 kbyte/s for a digital line and 3 * 3.3 == almost 10 kbyte/s for an analog line.
>>>The Senate was essentially a lifetime appointment originally and turned into an inherited office over time.
I don't know what happened in the long term, but originally the Senate was an elected position. Later-on the Romans added an elected Assembly for the Plebians. So Rome a a Democratic republic much like the U.S. (which copied the roman model with some changes).
A Roman-style Senate which had NO leaders. No caesars or presidents or anybody else who might become sick with power.
Also Google's pretty genius. All you need is a standard voiceline to post your tweets online. Nice. Wonder if anyone is making using of Dialup to post online? Despite many claims that dialup is worthless, it's actually quite useful - just slower (watching youtube requires a 5 minute buffer time) (or a youtube-to-3GP downloader).
FIXED:
For one thing: Betacam spins the tape spins faster, so a standard [1 and a half hour] Betamax tape only lasts [30 minutes] in the Betacam VCR. - Second: Betacam is a Component video format, while Betamax is S-video. i.e. Betacam is superior quality.
>>>Betamax survived as a pro format
I wish people would stop repeating this. Betamax and Betacam are as different from one another as an Amiga floppy from a Mac floppy. Sure they both share the same media format, but they are completely different in all other aspects.
For one thing: Betacam spins the tape approximately 4 times faster, so a standard 3-hour Betamax tape only last 1 hour in the Betacam VCR.
Second: Betacam is a Component video format, while Betamax is S-video. i.e. Betacam is superior quality.
And so on.
>>>older
Cheaper. I try to avoid spending money on upgrades when the computer (or car or TV) is still working. And yes I play videogames but usually on my Gamecube or PS2, rather than my laptop.
As for videos, youtube and hulu don't demand much processing power. The 700 MHz P3 can handle it just fine.
>>>I tried to copy my save file to the SD Card, and it told me no.
It would also suck if your Wii died, and the Replacement wii refused to accept all the savecards you've created so far. Sometimes I think the videogame industry is just as stupid as the music industry - i.e. trying to piss off customers until they have almost-none left.
Embedded OS? Why not just run DOS and get rid of the Windows shell?
We used VxWorks on our Pentium-based system.
>>>Ubuntu can get viruses just as easily as other OSes
Hey!
Linux fans - Can I use Ubuntu Live CD to virus-check my Windows XP partition? It goes to desktop and then freezes almost immediately. Or - can I get a Virus program to run off a floppy?
>>>The designer of NT came from a VMS background but NT was not based on VMS [or OS/2] code.
FTFY. And Netscape's designers came from their previous creation Mosaic for Amiga, Mac, and PC, but Netscape was not based on Mosaic code. Many moons later the Mozilla Suite spun-off from the never-released Netscape 5, and eventually became Seamonkey, but lo the users were not happy with Seamonkey's bloat, so they split-off the browser half and called it Firefox. And it was good.
Thus spake the book of mozilla. (Meanwhile I continue to believe Internet Explorer never actually existed, despite claims that it was released with Windows 95 Service Pack 1.) (And netscape devolved to a low-end dialup service: http://www.getnetscape.com/ )
We really need to get off our butts, and invent Antimatter-powered warp drive.
Oh wait. No antimatter. Never mind.